Chasing Ice Chases Oscar

This post comes to you from Ashden Directory Kellie Gutman writes: Chasing Ice a film about National Geographic photographer James Blalog’s quest to document the melting glaciers, has received an Academy Award nomination for Best Song. The film, directed by Jeff Orlowski, chronicles Blalog’s three-year project setting up time-lapse cameras to

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Jennifer Monson live, indoors, at The Kitchen

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Wallace Heim writes: Tomorrow, at The Kitchen in New York City, the movement artist Jennifer Monson starts Live Dancing Archive, a week of live performances, video installation and a digital archive.

One of the first stories on the

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Sanitation is culture

talking withBrooklyn Museum employee Peggy Johnson

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Wallace Heim writes: In New York last week, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, artist in residence since 1977 for the New York City Department of Sanitation, conducted a series of live interviews with Brooklyn

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From six seasons to two

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Bronze-winged jacana. Photo: India nature watch

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Kellie Gutman writes:

The state of Orissa, located in east-central India, was once known for having six seasons. Not only were there six, Grishmar (summer), Barsha (rainy), Sarata (autumn), Hemanta (dew), Sisira (winter), and Basanta (spring),

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Peace on earth

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Kellie Gutman writes: OVERVIEW is a short documentary with near-constant views of the earth from space interspersed with comments form astronauts, philosophers and writers. The word “overview” is used to refer to the astronauts’ views of the earth. It was released December 7th,

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The tide could turn with ‘Ten Billion’

This post comes to you from Ashden Directory Wallace Heim writes:

Theatre critic Kate Abbott in today’s Guardian joins Michael Billington in reporting a life-changing experience watching Ten Billion at the Royal Court.

Like the facts that Stephen Emmott presented, Abbott can recite the well-polished

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‘Ten Billion’ changes Billington

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Stephen Emmott in Ten Billion

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Michael Billington in today’s Guardian nominates Ten Billion as the ‘most momentous theatrical performance’ of 2012. The show was a lecture by Stephen Emmott, at the Royal Court

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Turkey limerick: melting glaciers

Melting Glaciers in the Himalayas (Credit: top-10-list.org)

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Kellie Gutman writes: Unable to pass up the opportunity to submit an “Environmental Turkey of 2012” in the form of a limerick, to the Nicholas School of Environment contest at Duke

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Hitting the high water mark before Sandy

Eve Mosher: High Water Line

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Wallace Heim writes:

The Talk of the Town in the New Yorker last week was all about Sandy. Elizabeth Kolbert framed her piece on the impossibility of flood protection around an artwork by

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miniature horse meets war horse

Celeste and Joey, courtesy the Boston Globe

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Kellie Gutman writes:

War Horse opened in Boston on October 10 for a two-week run. The traveling Broadway production, which originated at the National Theatre a few

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